1987

1987 was the 1,987th year of the Common Era and the seventh year of the 1980s.

Events

 * Chadian victory at the Battle of Fada during the Libyan-Chadian War of 1978-1987.
 * Beginning of the Phosphorite War movement in the Estonian SSR of the Soviet Union.
 * President Ronald Reagan acknowledges that the Iran-Contra Affair was an "arms-for-hostages" deal amidst protests against the affair.
 * Macau is agreed to be returned to China in 1999 by Portugal.
 * Sitiveni Rabuka leads a bloodless coup in Fiji.